bahut

[ bah-hoot, -hoot; buh-hoot, -hoot; French ba-y ]

noun

, plural ba·huts [bah, -h, oo, ts, -hoots, b, uh, -, hoots, -, hoots, b, a, -, y].

1. a medieval French chest for household goods, originally small and portable.
2. a dwarf parapet or attic wall, especially one carrying the wall plates of a church roof.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bahut¹

1830–40; < French, Old French bahu, bahuz, perhaps < Old Low Franconian *baghôdi cover, protection, equivalent to *bag- bag + *-hôdi protection, akin to hide ¹, hut

Example Sentences

“Bahut...Oh, how do you kids say...haan, bahut cute hai? Kehta hai tumhara producer hai.”

From Literature

A fully loaded Bureau Présidence desk is priced at just shy of $20,000, and the industrial-elegant Bahut storage unit with diamond-patterned metal sliding doors starts at $16,265.

From Los Angeles Times

A native veterinary surgeon once said to the present writer, “kuttē-kā saliva bahut antiseptic hai” for “a dog’s saliva is very antiseptic,” and this is not an extravagant example.3 The vocabulary of Panjabi and Eastern Hindi is very similar to that of Western Hindi.

From Project Gutenberg

In Buxa one afternoon when I happened to be inspecting the bazaar a native ran up in a state of great excitement to inform me that a "bahut burra samp," a very large snake, was climbing up the precipice on the west side of the hill on which the bazaar stood.

From Project Gutenberg

Bahut hubshi log ata hain,” said a voice, and he sprang round, to see the Gurkha Subedar saluting.

From Project Gutenberg